To: Mike Chapman (WA-24)
Prisons for profit
Prisons for profit make more money keeping people locked up than they do releasing them. This is wrong. A prison should be glad to put someone back on the street after they've served their time. Let's go back to state (or federal) run prisons and get the profit out of incarceration. I'm ashamed that we're the number one incarcerator in the western world.
Why is this important?
I have not been personally affected by this issue, other than to be ashamed that the U.S. is number one in prisoners per capita. Whatever it is we're doing, we're doing it wrong. Let's take the profit out of keeping people in prison.